VERS. 1 AND 2. _Offences._ “ _Then said He unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences (scandals) will come: but woe unto him through whom they come!_ 2. _It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these... [ Continue Reading ]
7. _Various Sayings: Luke 17:1-10_. This piece contains four brief lessons, placed here without introduction, and between which it is impossible to establish a connection. Olshausen and Meyer have attempted to connect them with one another and with what precedes. The _offence_, Luke 17:1-2, accordin... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 3 AND 4. _The Pardon of Trespasses._ “ _If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him._ 4. _And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him._ ” Holiness and love meet... [ Continue Reading ]
VERS. 5 AND 6. _Faith._ “ _And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith._ 6. _And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you._ ” This request of th... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Non-meritoriousness of Works._ “ _But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?_ 8. _And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I hav... [ Continue Reading ]
1. _The Ten Lepers: Luke 17:11-19_. VERS. 11-19. Luke 17:11, even in its construction, reminds us of Luke 9:51. The καὶ αὐτός has here, as well as there, peculiar force. The caravans of Galilee took either the Samaritan route or the Peraean. Jesus follows neither; He makes one _for Himself_, the re... [ Continue Reading ]
THIRD CYCLE: THE LAST SCENES OF THE JOURNEY, LUKE 17:11 TO LUKE 19:27. This third section brings us to Bethany, to the gates of Jerusalem, and to the morning of Palm Day. It seems to me evident that Luke, in Luke 17:11, intends simply to indicate the continuation of the journey begun Luke 9:51, and... [ Continue Reading ]
2. _The Messiah's Coming:_ Luke 17:20 _to Luke 18:8_. This piece embraces: 1 _st._ A question put by the Pharisees respecting the time of the appearance of the kingdom of God, and the answer of Jesus (Luke 17:20-21); 2 _d._ A discourse addressed by Jesus to His disciples on the same subject (Luke 1... [ Continue Reading ]
1 _st. Luke 17:20-21_. _The Spirituality of the Kingdom._ “ _And when He was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, He answered them, and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation._ 21. _Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, Lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And He said unto the disciples, The days will come when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it._ 23. _And they shall say to you, See here! or, see there! go not after them, nor follow them._ 24. _For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part... [ Continue Reading ]
2 _d. Luke 17:22-37_. _The Coming of the Kingdom._ To the Pharisees Jesus declared what they did not know, the spiritual essence of the kingdom. But Jesus did not mean to deny the external and final appearing of a divine state of things. To develope this other side of the truth, He turns to His disc... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man._ 27. _They did eat, they drank, they married, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed them all._ 28. _Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back._ 32. _Remember Lot's wife._ 33. _Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his l... [ Continue Reading ]